Three Artists Represent VGCC in State Exhibition


Peggy Stocks of Manson with her quilt, “Let’s Make a Scrap Quilt” (VGCC photo)

The 2012 North Carolina Community Colleges Art Exhibition is officially open for public viewing in Raleigh, and it includes three works representing Vance-Granville Community College. A painting by Nancy Pittard of Oxford and quilts by Lynn Patiky of Oxford and Peggy Stocks of Manson were selected to take their place among the 203 pieces of art by students and employees from colleges across the state. The artwork includes self-portraits, woven tapestries, pottery, quilts, acrylics, watercolors, sculptures, metal-working and more. All of the pieces of art are displayed in the Caswell Building, headquarters for the N.C. Community College System Office.

Pittard, a student in VGCC personal enrichment art classes who has won prizes at Kerr Lake Art Society shows co-sponsored by the college, said that her painting, called “Bush Out the House,” was inspired by her view of a beautiful Nandina bush from inside her home.

Lynn Patiky of Oxford with her quilt, “Glory” (VGCC photo)

Stocks, who has taught quilting classes at VGCC since 1995 and has made more than 100 quilts herself, said that her winning piece of art, which she calls “Let’s Make a Scrap Quilt,” was produced from scraps of four-inch squares accumulated when she was a member of a fabric club.

Patiky, one of Stocks’s students, said she has been quilting since 2003. Her entry, a red-white-and-blue-based quilt called “Glory,” also won second place at the North Carolina State Fair in 2011. “It was a kit from the online shop called Grandma’s Attic,” Patiky said of the quilt. “All the sewing in this quilt is done by hand, the piecing of the blocks and the quilting, which is my own design. It was quilted in a 14-inch hoop in my lap, with my three cats assisting and approving.”

“Bush Out the House” by Nancy Pittard of Oxford (VGCC photo)

The System Office partnered with the Visual Art Exchange of Raleigh to install the artwork and jury entries. The art is exhibited in the Caswell Building, located at 200 W. Jones Street, in downtown Raleigh. Public tours are available on a limited basis and may be scheduled by calling (919) 807-7100. The exhibit will run through December. Visit http://www.nccommunitycolleges.edu/pr/artexhibit/ to take a virtual tour.